Low risk products that people swear by.
Condom
I don’t know if they still exist. But there were these machines in casinos that took dollar bills, and always seem to pay out really well. 1 of paper equals 4 of coin everytime.
Foam earplugs if you’re headed to a noisy area. I know too many people that have damaged their hearing by not protecting it at concerts and other venues with amplified sounds.
While having them as a backup is good. If you enjoy concerts I’d highly suggest spending the money on good earplugs that don’t distort the sound as much. They make the specifically for concert goers and they’re amazing. Putting in Regular earplugs is like listening to a 32kbps mp3.
If anyone’s looking for brand names… Loops have spent a lot on marketing the last few years. I’ve worn them a few times and they’re good, but I think Flare Earshades are just one level above. I can’t believe how good they sound.
Agreed. I have some that just turn the volume down and I keep them on my keychain. It also helps me a lot when there’s background noise to pick out conversation. After the first part of the pandemic, it seemed like everybody had been yelling on their zoom calls and it helped with that as well until either they adjusted back to IRL volume or I readjusted to it.
I once forgot my ear protection while going to the club and had tinnitus for 2 days straight. Devinetively not worth it.
I pocket these whenever they’re available for free in places where I work. Recently downloaded a free app that measures decibels and was amazed.
Hearing loss is different from other things they warn you about. Get something in my eye? Guess I’ll start wearing eye protection. Back hurts? Guess I’ll start lifting with my knees. Hearing loss is different. You won’t lose your hearing, you’ll lose the ability to understand what people are saying in a noisy environment, it hurts you socially. Having to say “huh?” repeatedly is embarrassing, it makes you withdraw.
I’m already like that and I don’t have hearing loss
Maybe you do, though. It might be worth getting tested if you have access and haven’t already.
raises hand That’s me. Now I have tinnitus. Not worth it.
I went to see King Gizzard recently, earplugs in pocket, and I suppose I never found a moment to stick them in, but I was stood near the front the whole time and I came away with absolutely none of the usual hearing damage. I don’t know how they did it, but what a great bunch of lads.
Sometimes if you get ALL the way in front, you are in front of the speakers so they are pointed away from you, and it’s not nearly as loud.
Well I take solace in the fact that I first assumed it was someone else’s doing.
A tree donation.
Instead grow a tree and get rid of shitty lawn
If you have a lawn to get rid of, sure. If you don’t have an area to grow a tree yourself, a tree donation still is a feasible alternative.
i had a suoer cheap keyring that kept getting out of shape and poking my leg and dropping keys that i tolerated for years. finally i splurged and bought a thicker one for $1 and it totally solved the problem.
It’s a buck 25 now, but you can get two Inc brand R2 pens at dollar tree. They’re the only thing I’ve written with for nearly a decade now. They’re a smooth ballpoint with a slight bleed in 0.7 making your penmanship look bold, smooth, and steady. Everything my handwriting lacks. They now make a 0.5 and is equally as clean but far better for smallest script. One pen lasts me about 6 months of regular writing.
smooth ballpoint
I bet they’re a “rollerball” pen rather than a ballpoint. Those move a lot more-readily than ballpoints, kinda glide.
kagis
Yeah.
https://www.amazon.com/R-2-0-7-Roller-Ball-Pens/dp/B004B7RLWS
They’re rollerball pens.
Lots of different pen manufacturers make those. Sometimes you’ll see gel rollerball pens sold as “gel pens”. If you want an even smoother movement and can live with thicker lines, you can get a broader tip – those have even less resistance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_pen
Roller ball pens or roll pens are pens which use ball point writing mechanisms with water-based liquid or gelled ink, as opposed to the oil-based viscous inks found in ballpoint pens. These less viscous inks, which tend to saturate more deeply and more widely into paper than other types of ink, give roller ball pens their distinctive writing qualities. The writing point is a tiny ball, usually 0.5 or 0.7 mm in diameter, that transfers the ink from the reservoir onto the paper as the pen moves.
In comparison to ballpoint pens,
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Rollerball pens have a unique ink flow system for an even, high-performance writing experience.
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Less pressure needs to be applied to the pen to have it write cleanly. This permits holding the pen with less stress on the hand, saving energy and improving comfort. This can also translate to quicker writing speeds. This is especially true of liquid ink pens.
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Their inks usually have a greater range of colors due to the wider choice of suitable water-soluble dyes and/or to the use of pigments.
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They tend to write more clearly than ballpoint pens do.
There are a number of disadvantages inherent to roller ball pens:
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Roller ball pens with liquid-ink are more likely to “bleed” through the paper. Liquid ink is more readily absorbed into the paper due to its lower viscosity. This viscosity also causes problems when leaving the tip on the paper. The bleed-through effect is greatly increased as the ink is continually absorbed into the paper, creating a blotch. This does not affect gel-ink roller ball pens as much. This is one way through which the thickness of gel-ink gives it an advantage, in that it isn’t as prone to being absorbed. Though the bleed-through effect of a gel-ink roller ball is greater than that of a ballpoint, it is usually not too significant.
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Roller ball pens generally run out of ink more quickly than ballpoints because roller balls use a greater amount of ink while writing. This is especially true of liquid-ink roller balls, due to gel ink having a low absorption rate as a result of its thickness. Neither lasts as long as a ballpoint.
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Uncapped roller ball pens are more likely to leak ink when, for example, placed into a shirt pocket, but most pens include caps or other mechanisms to prevent this from happening.
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A roller ball tip is more likely to clog and jam when writing over correction fluid that has not yet completely dried. This often renders the ink cartridge useless.
The WP article doesn’t mention it, but rollerballs also don’t work well with carbon paper, as you don’t need to push hard enough to create an impression from the carbon paper the way you do with a ballpoint. But as long as that isn’t an issue for your application…shrug
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Bitwarden Premium is $10 a year. Less than $1 a month.
Bitwarden also has a free tier.
Arizona Iced Tea.
Starting this out:
P51 Military Can Openers: I have several of these. I have one on a tiny magnet attached to my kitchen door should I ever need it. Works about as well as any other can opener. Easy to slip in a drawer, keychain, car, exct.
Mason Jar plastic reusable lids: great for storage as well as meal prep. I have a lot of mason jars and these are awesome.
Watching the sun rise every once and a while is free. You could probably get a pen and a few sheets of paper to write or draw your experiences. By volume a daily vitamin is well below $1 per day and could have significant benefits if you’re not always eating healthy.
The last campfire on steam when its on sale.
A vpn subscription over 3 years or split the cost with a friend, it comes to about 1 something a month. Cheaper than those shitty subscription services.
4 quarters
The spicy potato soft taco from taco bell
Also the bean burrito
If I want a cheap, quick dinner I’ll get a few of those in some combination
Cheap scissors for your car. You never know when you need to open something that would be difficult to do with your hands for whatever reason.
Dollar Tree movie candy
